The army drill at the foot of the elephant mountain is in full swing, the fifteenth battalion of various arms take turns to fight, the scene looks like a strong and fierce, there is a way for laymen to see the lively, insiders to see the doorway, in Wang Lanping's view, this whole is an expanded version of the flyover tricks, even the Huaining defenders who were trained in only half a day are not as good, how big the face is and how big the eyes are.

The horses of the 3,000 battalions were riding, playing acrobatics, and the light cavalry was about fast interspersing and surprise, but the 500 horse formations selected by Li Zhi's men to practice looked like a polo game of 500 people from that point of view, crowded into piles, this is not a heavy cavalry.

When the iron cavalry battalion came up, it was even funnier, a large number of war horses seemed to be malnourished for a long time, and they had too much weight, and before they practiced a few laps, there were already more than a dozen horses who were so tired that they foamed at the mouth and fell to the ground and pretended to be dead, so they were embarrassed to pull it out conspicuously?

The iron cavalry battalion has just retreated, and it is the turn of the shield armor soldiers and pikemen of the anti-cavalry battle to practice, this is what Wang Lanping is best at, he knows that the number of cavalry of the Qing soldiers will account for a large proportion in the future, so he has done a lot of ancient and modern explorations on how to fight with the cavalry.

But today's cooperation is too eye-catching, pulling and pulling for a long time, and I haven't even fiddled with the formation of a team, just like today's veteran retirement you can't even stand in a military posture, are you still a soldier?

Although standing in line and actual combat skills seem to have little to do with it, but this is precisely the most important thing, the main general wants to achieve absolute orders and prohibitions in the army, then every soldier must be like a pile all the time, where the commander puts you, you have to die there, let you crawl you are not allowed to stand up, let you rush you can not retreat, this is the real order forbidden.

The lower beam is crooked, and the upper beam is not anywhere, which shows how negligent these generals are in training the army.

The fifteenth battalion full of foreign appearances made Wang Lanping in the stands cry and laugh, and endured his temperament until the middle of the day, this farce can be regarded as the end, the Ming army, the Qing army, the Shun army, and Zhang Xianzhong's department entrenched in Sichuan, if you want to talk about combat effectiveness, the Ming army ranks first from the bottom, and no one really robs him.

But everyone has a head, a pair of hands, and a heart, why is the Ming army seen today like this, where did the Ming army go when it swept Dayuan?

From today's exercise, Wang Lanping also probably saw some of the shortcomings of the Ming army, these 15 battalions almost include all the arms of the Ming army nowadays, with a point to the face, the leaves fall and know the autumn, the most important thing is morale, from the eyes of these soldiers can not see what they are doing here for the sake of the exercise, it seems that it is purely for the sake of acting, each training each other, everyone is laughing and laughing, fighting and making trouble, and even more, the soldiers of each battalion seem to look down on each other.

In addition to morale, there is also a deficiency that is military prestige, to put it bluntly, there is a male soldier, a nest of male generals, what kind of main general has what kind of soldiers, and the general of the main general cannot be afraid of his soldiers at all.

Thinking that Sun Wu trained female soldiers back then, and the military discipline was lax, he directly cut off a few heads of harem mothers with a knife, and the rest did not dare to disrespect military orders.

Without the absolute authority of killing decisively and prohibiting orders, how can he convince the public, Wang Lanping secretly shook his head in his heart: This group of rice buckets should have been changed a long time ago.

But right now, every time Wang Lanping watched a battalion of soldiers go down, he had to endure the nausea, clapping his hands and applauding at the same time, he had to dig out his mind to find a few adjectives, "Oh, General Li, after seeing your 3,000 battalions of tiger power, this Admiral is impressed today, with this tiger and wolf division stationed in the capital, it is really a blessing of the saints, the luck of the Ming Dynasty, the little thief and the thief who does not know the height of the sky, as long as you old General Li wave the flag, the night will be wiped out in a blink of an eye, the old general's training subordinates can be said to be unique in the world, admire, Admiration: "Actually, Wang Lanping is idea, what's the matter, the hunter who chases rabbits is also more skilled than the horsemanship of your cavalry."

After watching the drill of the archers of the Fifth Army Battalion, Wang Lanping patted his thigh and flattered the chief general of the Fifth Army Battalion, "Look, look, everyone, I think that Lu Bu was just a child's play of shooting halberds at the gate, but I don't know that the arrow array under General Zhao today is enough to stop the enemy's army from a hundred steps away, and see who dares to say that the army cavalry shooting is not as good as Manyi in the future" Wang Lanping himself was embarrassed to listen to it, and the two hundred archers on the drill field were divided into three rows and shot together, and after shooting, there were only twelve arrows on the ten human-shaped grass targets forty steps away, I really don't know where the other 182 arrows went.

With all the wild boasting, there are really a few shameless generals who feel good about themselves, a complacent look, and only a few generals have embarrassed faces and know that they are insufficient.

But today's Wang Lanping, whether from the title or directly to the constitution, it is not good to turn his face on the spot, because Wang Lanping is the emperor has just been crowned the Marquis of Dingnan, and he leads all the departments of the Beijing camp, and if he does not give him face, he does not give the emperor face, and the anti-emperor has become the object of everyone's attacks and falling into the ground, even if the emperor is a puppet, as long as someone dares to be disrespectful to the emperor, he will immediately jump out of a bunch of seemingly loyal and loyal people, but in fact, the emperor is just a disguise, and excluding dissent is the right way.

Today, Wang Lanping is the same, with the emperor's good tiger skin material, he can rest assured and boldly pull the banner.

Under the scorching sun, Wang Lanping was wearing a golden armor, which was particularly eye-catching, and his heroic posture was extraordinary, and the generals of the 15th battalion who were pregnant with ghosts behind him also got up.

Wang Lanping suddenly opened his arms to the audience, and shouted in an extremely majestic voice, "All the soldiers are mighty" soldiers are good soldiers, but it is a pity that they follow the wrong commander, and they can't give full play to their strength.

The drums of war rumbled, as if they were in the middle of a battle.

At one moment, the guns in the audience rose up and down, and the knives and guns beat the shields, and the sound made people sound extraordinarily enthusiastic, "Drink!" Drink! ......" and this just stimulated Wang Lanping alone.

At this time, Song Dali quickly ran up to the viewing platform, came to Wang Lanping's side, and whispered in his ear, "I have inquired clearly, Li Zhi of the 3,000 battalion and Zhao Zhong of the 5th military battalion have always had a discordant relationship, and they have been grudges for more than ten years."

Wang Lanping smiled slightly, snorted lightly and nodded, and motioned for Song Dali to step aside.

"Come on, serve wine" Wang Lanping turned around and looked at the fifteen battalion generals in front of him, "I want to toast all the generals."

Several soldiers of the Fengzi Battalion carried two jars of wine and a table, and placed them in front of everyone, stacked the bowls, and poured them all in one word, and for a while, the wine on the viewing platform was overflowing.

The generals were also interested, and they all stepped forward and bowed their hands, saying, "The commander is promoted to review the military prestige, how dare we not do our best."

Wang Lanping shook his cloak, "Okay, I, Wang Lanping, as a junior, thanks to the love of the saint, ordered the post of commander, and in the future, I will rely on your great help to serve the Ming Dynasty" Saying that, he picked up a bowl of wine and held it high, "I'll do it first for respect"

The generals used to drink privately with Wang Lanping, gambling money, and always felt that this young man was just a sudden upstart, he sometimes scolded his mother when he spoke, and he was rude, drinking flower wine and entering Fireworks Willow Lane, there should be no city, he was too young, and this idea was still deeply imprinted in the hearts of the generals.

The generals laughed, and also raised the wine bowl, "Respect the commander, do it" Everyone drank happily.

As soon as he finished drinking, the soldiers of the Fengzi battalion next to him immediately filled it up again.

Wang Lanping wiped his mouth, tore off the cloak on the armor behind him, and laughed, "Enjoyable, happy, you are all loyal and famous generals of the Ming Dynasty, how can I Wang Lanping be your commander, I dare not be ashamed, from today on, the original battalion system will remain unchanged, and the generals will still be the commanders of each battalion, if there is really a day when you go to the battlefield, as long as one of your generals speaks, I Wang Lanping will definitely lead my 1,000 personal soldiers to sacrifice their lives to help, come, work together for the future, and do it again"

After saying that, I took a few mouthfuls of the bowl and saw the bottom again.

The generals saw him so bold, and compared himself to the sixteenth battalion in front of everyone, which is too self-aware, our family background, it is all handed down by our ancestors, not that you want to get rid of a hairy boy who has just lost his milk teeth.

The generals followed with a bowl of drink, "Respect the commander again"

Fill it up again.

Wang Lanping saw that everyone had seen the bottom, and slammed the table, shaking the wine bowls on the table and clanging, and this time it came suddenly, and everyone else was startled.

"This third bowl of wine, come, invite the four-clawed regimental dragon robe given by the Holy Lord, drill it, the military formations of each battalion dazzle me, the saint has a saying, this robe is only given to the most powerful military person, my third cup of wine is to pay tribute to this person" Wang Lanping pointed to the regimental dragon robe that the sergeant on the side had just put up, "Who gets this robe?" ”

All the generals looked at the robe, this thing is precious, the prince is only a five-clawed dragon, this is the highest courtesy of the Ming Emperor to reward hundreds of officials (equivalent to the yellow coat of the Qing Dynasty), a battalion will be able to get this special place, and he is willing to die, the fifteen pairs of eyes have never left the robe, and the greed on his face is none other than me.

Wang Lanping saw it in his eyes, and secretly said in his heart: Who wants it, this is not a robe, this is your shroud.

"Everyone, today's drill is obvious to everyone, in my opinion, everyone should be strong, but there is only one robe, you say, which general should be given by the saint?" Wang Lanping continued to tease everyone's mood.

Although the generals are very concerned about this robe, there are also a few who feel that something is wrong here, today's exercise is obviously a farce, even a small soldier can see it, why this Wang Lanping praised it as if it was a heavenly soldier, will there be anything greasy in this, including the scheming 3,000 battalion commander Li Zhi, who is over sixty years old and knows the way of fighting for power, but he stared at Wang Lanping with a very suspicious eye, without saying a word.

But there are a few old rough generals who really only know how to fight for their lives, and Wang Lanping must be eager to step forward and pull the robe.

I saw him rush to everyone, patting his chest and spitting saliva, "Don't fight with Lao Tzu, damn it, everyone saw it just now, Lao Tzu's artillery was shot out, two miles away where to fight, if you want to defend the city or pull out the village, which of you dare to go up without Lao Tzu's Shenji Battalion, so this robe belongs to Lao Tzu" and you have to reach out to take it.

He was not the only one who was greedy and didn't have a fancy intestine, and before he could hold the robe, another person rushed out of the stabbing and pushed Ma Cheng away, "Hey, you are a god and a cow, ten cannons and five cannons have not fired, and you are kind enough to wear a regimental dragon robe, if you want to say that this Nanjing 15th battalion, in terms of troops, I should count the soldiers and horses of my Left Tiger Guard Battalion with the most soldiers and horses, and the morale is the highest, this robe should belong to me."

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After a dispute that was bound to win, Wang Lanping had been waiting for Li Zhi of the 3,000 battalion to come out, but this old boy seemed to smell some danger signal, and he actually pretended to be dead there, not only him, but also four or five rough generals among the fifteen people were bragging about themselves without skin and face, it seems that these silent people are not very good at leading troops, and they have a lot of scheming.

Wang Lanping thought about it, pretended to be drunk, shook a few steps, and laughed, "Don't fight, generals, I already have a candidate"

Several people who were arguing immediately stopped when they heard this, glared at each other disapprerovingly, and stood aside.

Wang Lanping picked up the bowl, swayed and came to the front of Li Zhi, the commander of the 3,000 battalion, and pretended to be a very admiring expression and said, "The old general is still able to get on the horse to kill the enemy, quite Huang Zhong's bravery, I want the old general to rush to the aid of Zhu Qiugui, the king of Shanxi Jin Dynasty, on the orders of Emperor Chongzhen, the general is the first soldier, and the thieves are 8,000 people, and now in the younger generation, it is such a heroic ambition, the old general, you deserve this robe, the general, the younger generation respects you"

Wang Lanping had already let Song Dali touch the door clear, what a thief eight thousand, this old boy had to follow the holy decree to rescue the king of Jin who was chased by Li Zicheng with three thousand light horses, but this old boy was greedy for life and afraid of death, and he didn't even see the face of the Shun army, so he directly took the troops, transferred to Shandong, and went all the way south, but he didn't leave as soon as he sat in Nanjing, and boasted that he had no troops after breaking the eight thousand thieves, so he had to withdraw to Nanjing to rest.

He didn't dare to go back to the capital, the whole territory of Shanxi fell into the hands of Li Zicheng, the king of Jin was killed, he went back to look for death, Nanjing was already a far area of the emperor who was out of the reach of Chongzhen's whip at that time, which was very safe.

Li Zhiyi's shrewd eyes narrowed slightly, and his intuition told him that Wang Lanping, this kid, must not be well-intentioned.